The focus of this project is to determine whether or not second-language learners make significant linguistic gains during short-term study abroad programs. Today we see a ton of study-abroad programs, specifically short-term ...

It is a generally accepted fact that, from the standpoint of evolution, the turtles are representatives of very primitive amniotes. Paleontological evidence indicates the turtles, as an order, have undergone little change ...

My selection of this problem has been influenced by many factors fron many directions. In the short time that I did my practice teaching I became aware of two major weaknesses in the school system. I could do nothing about ...

Though Tennyson’s interest in the theatre was life-long, his interest in the writing of plays did not crystallize until his later years. Not until 1875, after be was 65 years of age, did the first of his plays appear. To ...

Among the substances which markedly influence the reactions and metabolism of the animal body are those internally-produced compounds called hormones. Many of the hormones of the higher animals are secreted by the ductless ...

For bewildering multiplicity of interpretations, the American Civil War stands unparalleled in our national history. The purposeless tragedy of the event has made it a fitting subject for romanticists and moralists. It ...

The story of Oscar Wilde has had a compelling fascination for writers for a number of years, his enemies have written the "truth” about Wilde: his friends have done the same. Wilde, the man, has been more talked and written ...

Statement of the problem: How can teachers recognize and use the clique in order that the social atmosphere of the classroom is improved for learning? Statement of method of attack: Through investigation of research done ...

Introduction The Wingless Victory, by Maxwell Anderson, was first presented by Katharine Cornell, who also played Oparre, at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., on November 24, 1936. The play was staged by Guthrie ...

The Bill of Rights of the Illinois State Constitution proclaim: "Every person out to find a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries and wrongs upon which he may receive in his person, property or reputation; he ought ...

The ratification of the Federal Constitution did not produce, as If by magic, a unified State, Although state conventions ratified the now constitution, not all the people of any one state, or the new Nation, showed favorable ...

The purpose of this paper is to show how and why England broke with the Roman Church. That this break was unique and did not follow the pattern of revolts of other states is perhaps due to the role played by Henry VIII. ...

Early In December of 1952, Epsilon Pi Tau, the Industrial Arts National Honorary Professional Fraternity, made a field trip to Hines-Vaughan Veteran Hospital at Hines, Illinois, to study the rehabilitation of disabled ...

In order to become more familiar with costs of the techniques and equipment used in plant synecology, this writer chose to make a vegetational analysis of the tress of the Lorado Taft Field Campus. It is desirable in such ...

Learned men have said that the solution to all problems is understanding. Today many people are viewing the future with alarm. In our own country for instance we feel the black clouds of war hanging over our heads. We are ...

It is the purpose of this paper to examine the rise of labor In the United States in an attempt to show that the various underscored principles, herein contained, my be regarded as examples of basic principles of social ...

"Physics is, by common consent, the fundamental science." This statement may be justified primarily in the fact that the younger sciences are considered scientific only to the extent that their concepts are logically ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of directed reading for personal-social growth on the ninth grade level through scientific measurements. A study was made of similar research findings relevant to the ...

This paper is a discussion of the importance of the child's developing the ability to talk at the time that he is most ready for speech. Should he fail to begin speaking during this speech readiness period, techniques which ...